I saw 9 posts since my post yesterday afternoon, and it’s the next day, in the a.m., so yeah, this forum is read. 45 people read my post in less than 24 hours.

I just went through the menus in Notepad++ and found Google Search in the Run menu. All I had to do is look.

**rant: **Mentioning menus tempts me to rant about current UI trends where the menus are being removed from software. Doing this is utterly stupid. Menus have been around since the pre-Windows days and were a part of the original Windows architecture. Microsoft in particular has been turning them off by default in their apps, and software developers tend to follow what Microsoft does. This is a mistake.

To learn what Notepad++ can do I spent some time experimenting with various menu options. Menus are self-documenting and if Microsoft’s own standards are followed (File, Edit, View, Help, etc.) application control is organized by task making it easier to drill down to the desired action.

Kudos to the developer(s) of Notepad++ for not removing the flippin’ menus :)

From now on, if your right-click on any selection ( Normal or Rectangular ) and choose the Google Search option, in the Context Menu, a new tab will open, in your browser, with the results of the search of the selected text